New Parent Sayings

#1. We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#2. Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

Robert Downey Jr.

#3. Nothing we are told, nothing we read prepares us for the feelings we have as a new parent holding our baby, and knowing that we also hold their life in the balance.

Kim John Payne

#4. Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries.

Harvey Karp

#5. What every new parent needs.a ton of expert advice, presented with humor and zero negativity, from two moms who instantly feel like your best friends. This is the one pregnancy guide that new parents will actually want to read.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#6. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.

Prince William

#7. However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

Robert Winston

#8. The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

Aeschylus

#9. The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements

Tony Blair

#10. Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use.

Amanda McCabe

#11. Nick turned out to be a shy boy, uncertain in groups and in new situations, but also very brave, determined to overcome his fear. - Will, as a parent describing his son

Lisa Goldstein

#12. Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent, new developments are superficial and evanescent. For the adolescent, they are thrilling and profound.

Terri E Apter

#13. To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.

Mark Victor Hansen

#14. Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.

Gail Parent

#15. I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.

Frank Abagnale

#16. Hanging out with Sam or any two-year-old is basically one big suicide watch. Their mission is to find one new way after another of offing themselves - piss in an electric socket, lick a pit bull's nose, chase an ice cream truck into traffic - and your job as a parent is to step in before it happens.

Michael J. Fox

#17. That's why I get excited over new things, because I didn't have much when I was smaller and my parents could only do so much.

Jc Caylen

#18. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

#19. I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job.

Doug Stanhope

#20. There is one thing new in sexual mores and that is today's bisexual chic ... if you can't truthfully claim to be bisexual yourself, the next best thing is to reveal that one, or both, of your parents was.

Helen Lawrenson

#21. Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.

Sinclair Lewis

#22. I never told you this enough- it's a failing between all men, I think, but too often of fathers to their sons- I love you. When you came into the world, you brought me a new purpose and a new drive. Suddenly , I was not just a parent, I was a guardian too.

Joseph D'Lacey

#23. The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness.

Frederick Lenz

#24. A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.

Jimmy Fallon

#25. I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.

Peter Eisenman

#26. Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.

Fred Rogers

#27. One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

Michael Adam Hamilton

#28. When you become a parent, that's a whole new level of life intruding. Nobody tells you how boring and time-sucking it's going to be! Or how the responsibility feels like an airbag going off in your life.

Maria Semple

#29. KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don't care if you're Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It's that SIMPLE.

Carew Papritz

#30. Later in life the force of abstinence was to really be understood and my parent's problems became very clear. When will man appreciate his pleasures and respect them enough to indulge in moderation?

Theresa Sjoquist

#31. I think sometimes when we grew up with a parent who is deeply flawed ... we learn, subconsciously at least, to expect the worst from everyone else as well ... Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that way forever. We can learn to see with new eyes if we try.

Mindy Starns Clark

#32. Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife, his triumph encourages new growth in his parents. In this sense a child is parent to his mother and father.

Louise J. Kaplan

#33. The real legacy of Christian homeschooling is people who grow to adulthood and influence a new generation of children. And the greatest tribute possible to the homeschooling parent is to see that work carry forward.

Alexandra Swann

#34. Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you.

Yoshitaka Amano

#35. The New World is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is some intense, bloodless violence and the beautiful underage lead actress (15-year-old Q'orianka Kilcher) may cause cardiac arrest among some viewers.

Manohla Dargis

#36. Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

Jenna Morasca

#37. There is growing consensus that new parents need help
information, advice, practical assistance
and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.

Sheila Kamerman

#38. An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

John Steinbeck

#39. The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

D.H. Lawrence

#40. Life is love, a gift from god and parent, death is gratitude for a new dimension

Masaru Emoto

#41. The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Margaret Fuller

#42. Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies

Edward Gibbon

#43. I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.

Anne Waldman

#44. Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Mariska Hargitay

#45. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

Lisa Belkin

#46. It took them longer, a week or so, to notice the hole in their language that this new word had made. To grasp that there was no term for a parent without a child, a sister without a sister.

Emma Hooper

#47. Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.

John Waters

#48. There's a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of divorced families. I come from a divorced family. And you have parents meet someone and they have kids and you're with that whole having to meet new people and be your family. That's always a hard thing to do.

Selena Gomez

#49. If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

James Collins

#50. Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#51. In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent of white children. Indeed, a single parent is the new norm.

Nicholas Kristof

#52. Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.

J.R. Rim

#53. Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

Nick Earls

#54. Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood ...

J.G. Ballard

#55. When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

Ben Stiller

#56. Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven.

Max Lucado

#57. I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

Kathryn Hahn